Press Coverage: S Peggie v Fife Health Board & Dr B Upton
Press coverage post first part of the hearing and related
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Here are links to relevant press coverage from 17th February 2025 about this case. These links are included without comment and are not endorsed by Tribunal Tweets. This is a sample of coverage only - it is not comprehensive. Please DM our main Twitter account to submit coverage from an established news outlet. Any paywalled article must be archived.
8th June 2025
Spectator - The NHS Fife case raises questions for the Scottish press
29th May 2025
Daily Mail - Trans doctor receives counselling due to the 'incredible distress' of NHS gender tribunal
28th May 2025
Herald - NHS Fife rebuked by watchdog over Sandie Peggie FOI failures
21st May 2025
Kent Online - Nurse in trans doctor case demands clarity from union on single-sex spaces
Telegraph - Nurse Sandie Peggie challenges Royal College of Nursing over trans doctor
Standard - Nurse in trans doctor case demands clarity from union on single-sex spaces
14th May 2025
BBC - No ban on public viewing Sandie Peggie tribunal online
Telegraph - NHS trust in trans doctor tribunal fails to ban public from watching case
16th April 2025
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Scottish Daily Express - NHS Fife under pressure to concede Sandy Peggie case after Supreme Court bombshell
Dunfermline Press - NHS Fife urged to concede Sandie Peggie case after landmark ruling
Spectator - NHS board being sued by Sandie Peggie will ‘consider’ gender ruling
Scotsman - NHS Fife urged to concede Sandie Peggie case after Supreme Court ruling
Courier - NHS Fife told to ‘admit defeat’ in Sandie Peggie tribunal after landmark Supreme Court ruling
14th April 2025
Scottish Daily Express - Sandie Peggie employment tribunal secrecy sparks flurry of complaints to the Courts and Tribunals Service
Courier - Ex-Kirkcaldy MP who supported nurse suing NHS Fife recalls first chat about trans row case
11th April 2025
Daily Mail Scotland- let us see tribunal
Telegraph - Drop preferred pronouns for sex offenders, judges told
Scottish Daily Express - NHS Fife promises to 'foster a culture of kindness' for staff despite battling Sandie Peggie in tribunal case
Scottish Daily Express - JK Rowling responds to NHS Fife bid to block livestream of Sandie Peggie tribunal
10th April 2025
Scotsman - NHS Fife in legal bid to ban public watching trans doctor Beth Upton tribunal online
9th April 2025
Telegraph - NHS trust tries to shut public out of trans tribunal in secrecy row
NHS Fife - Comment sought on Tribunal Tweets and online public access during tribunal hearing.
4th April 2025
Herald - Sandie Peggie: NHS Fife pressed over trans impact assessment
Scottish Daily Express - 'Dangerous' to ban trans women from female toilets and you 'can't police it' claims Scottish Lib Dem leader
Nursing Times - Watchdog sends warning to NHS Fife over changing rooms dispute
3rd April 2025
Herald - NHS Central Legal Office refuse to disclose Sandie Peggie costs
1st April 2025
Scotsman - Human rights watchdog considering enforcement against NHS Fife over Dr Beth Upton transgender case
Telegraph - SNP admits it helped write controversial NHS trans guidance
Scottish Daily Express - NHS Fife refuses to answer SECOND key question on trans row tribunal
Scottish Daily Express - NHS Fife could face fresh court action if it fails to comply with single-sex facilities law
31st March 2025
Telegraph - NHS trust could face ‘enforcement’ action after allowing trans doctor to use female changing room
Telegraph - NHS Fife refuses to alter female changing rooms policy amid trans row
28th March 2025
The Critic - The men making the news
26th March 2025
Scottish Daily Express - Research by Scottish mums finds that NO NHS Scotland health boards offer single-sex facilities
20th March 2025
Courier - SNP health chief backed NHS Fife over trans row tribunal without holding talks about case
18th March 2025
The Times - I don’t know if hospitals follow law on single-sex spaces, minister says
Scottish Daily Express - NHS Fife allowed Dr Beth Upton into women's changing rooms without consulting watchdog
15th March 2025
Scottish Daily express - 'Not a single British voter' thinks that Sandie Peggie was in the wrong to object to Beth Upton’
Daily Express - NHS Fife chief battling Sandie Peggie gender row bags bumper £10k rise - and is paid more than First Minister!
12th March 2025
Scottish Daily Express - Petulant Nicola Sturgeon STILL refuses to accept that her gender self-ID reforms were wrong
11th March 2025
The Scotsman - How public services are breaking law over single-sex facilities, exposing them to mass compensation claims
[VIDEO] Scottish Parliament - Engender, ‘Scotland’s feminist and policy advocacy organisation’, would not comment on whether women's groups should be able exclude men
Times - Feminist charity ‘betrays women’ with silence on lesbian rights
The Scotsman - Leading feminist organisation 'fails to give straight answers' on single-sex spaces
9th March 2025
Daily Record - 'You've got a willy, so you're a man' Trans doctor row barrister sets out legal argument
Telegraph - Trans doctors can use lavatories of their choice, says hospital trust
Sunday Post - Police’s changing-room policy for trans officers ‘may be illegal’
Scottish Daily Express - Police Scotland female staff could face disciplinary action if they raise concerns over trans women in female facilities
8th March 2025
Morning Star - A wake-up call for the trade union movement
Holyrood - Naomi Cunningham: I’m fuelled by rage, and I’ve been lucky
COURIER OPINION: We will challenge NHS Fife secrecy over Sandie Peggie legal bill
7th March 2025
Scottish Sun - Reform UK wade into NHS Fife trans row as party boss claims case is ‘absurd’ & ‘obscene’
Scottish Daily Express - NHS Fife failed to carry out risk assessment before fighting Sandie Peggie employment tribunal
Scottish Daily Express - Mhairi Black demands SNP relaunch gender reforms - and discipline those who disagree
6th March 2025
Telegraph - Call bearded trans colleagues women, NHS staff told
Scottish Daily Express - NHS Scotland demand staff call bearded transgender colleagues 'women' in madcap guidance
Courier - NHS Fife not paying full cost of trans row tribunal
The Critic - Turning the tide on gender
Talk TV - MSP Ash Regan on Sandie Peggie case
Scottish Daily Express - Second NHS Fife medic set to be dragged into Sandie Peggie case after suggesting reporting nurse to cops for 'misgendering'
5th March 2025
National - Trans people are just people, not a threat or enemy
Times - NHS orders staff to call bearded transgender colleagues women
Herald - Why won't NHS Fife reveal the costs of Sandie Peggie case?
Daily Mail - Single sex row nurse accuses transgender doctor's boss of harassing her
4th March 2025
Scottish Daily Express - New twist in Sandie Peggie row as trans Dr Upton's 'career ending' claims 'unlikely' to be true
Courier - NHS Fife keeps cost of trans changing room tribunal secret
Personnel Today - EDI should not stifle LGB rights in the trans debate
Press & Journal - NHS Grampian has no policy in place for trans staff using changing rooms
1st March 2025
Courier - NHS Fife nurse claims 20 staff ‘disagreed’ with trans doctor using women’s changing room
28th Feb 2025
Fife Today - Sandy Peggie tribunal: Kirkcaldy MP backs protecting single sex spaces
Courier - NHS Fife admitted ‘no policy’ for single-sex changing rooms months before tribunal
Unherd - John Swinney’s trans stance is electoral suicide
27th February 2025
Courier - NHS Fife trans row tribunal: Was settlement ever on table?
26th February 2025
Scottish Daily Express - Watchdog told to make it 'crystal clear' that employers must provide single sex facilities
Scottish Daily Express - John Swinney believes 'trans women are women' as he defends SNP policy of allowing biological men into female bathrooms
Scottish Daily Express - Holyrood Presiding Officer denies purposely blocking questions about Sandie Peggie after furious backlash
Telegraph - SNP leader: I support right of trans women to use female bathrooms
Spectator - John Swinney must stand up for women’s rights
25th February 2025
Daily Express - Watchdog must tell employers men cannot use women's toilets at work, campaigners say
Guardian - Scottish government ‘firmly’ backs single-sex spaces amid equality watchdog warning
Kent Online - Ministers ‘committed’ to working with equalities body on single-sex spaces
Scottish Daily Express - SNP Minister refuses to back single-sex facilities as Sandie Peggie row rolls on
Herald - Scottish Government ‘riding two horses’ on single-sex spaces
Scotsman - SNP ministers accused of 'trying to ride two horses' in Dr Beth Upton trans row
Telegraph - NHS let trans doctor into female changing room ‘without legally required assessment’
Herald - NHS Fife may have broken law in trans changing room row
Scottish Daily Express - New twist in Sandie Peggie case as NHS Fife accused of breaking the law amid startling revelation
NEN - Gender Recognition Reform: Women’s groups call for clarity following Nicola Sturgeon comments
24th February 2025
Telegraph - SNP urged to clean up Sturgeon’s gender self-ID ‘mess’
Scottish Sun - Anas Sarwar branded ‘desperate’ after declaring trans women should be banned from single sex spaces
Scottish Daily Express - No wonder the shameful SNP don't want to talk about the rights of women and girls
23rd Feb 2025
Spectator - It’s time to reform the Gender Recognition Act
Courier - How Kirkcaldy hospital changing room row put NHS Fife at centre of culture war
Holyrood - The Sandie Peggie case has helped Anas Sarwar grow a pair when it comes to gender self-ID
Herald - 'Sarwar's gender reform U-turn is a 'betrayal to trans members'
22nd Feb 2025
Daily Mail - The SNP's radical gender ideology has caused despair and division.
The Times - How trans rights took over Scottish politics — and aren’t going away
Holyrood - Gender Divide: How the Sandie Peggie case re-opened the debate over self-ID
Herald - Schools could face Sandie Peggie-style legal dispute
Telegraph - If trans doctors can wipe their past records, patients are in trouble
Telegraph - The GMC cannot allow trans doctors to erase their past
21st Feb 2025
The Times - How trans rights took over Scottish politics — and aren’t going away
Telegraph - NHS trust reprimanded over trans doctor row
Byline Times - Whose feelings count? How a workplace tribunal turned into a trans show trial
Herald - Swinney has confidence in NHS Fife amid Sandie Peggie row
Courier - Equalities watchdog intervenes in NHS Fife transgender row
National - UK equalities watchdog intervenes in NHS Fife changing rooms row
Times - Watchdog tells NHS Fife to provide single-sex changing rooms
Scotsman - 'Concerned' equalities watchdog intervenes in NHS Fife transgender row involving Dr Beth Upton
Independent - Equalities regulator ‘concerned’ by reports of Government transitioning guide
Standard - Equalities regulator ‘concerned’ by reports of Government transitioning guide
BBC - Regulator sends equality 'reminder' to NHS Fife
Personnel Today - GMC ‘erases’ records on doctors who change gender
The Critic - The NHS is letting down its nurses
20th Feb 2025
Daily Mail - Fury as it’s revealed medics’ disciplinary records are ERASED from public view when they change gender
Telegraph - Wes Streeting condemns wiping of trans doctors’ records
Telegraph - The SNP can’t have it both ways. Some things are binary, actually
Dumfermline Press - Sandie Peggie Tribunal: Legal advice needed on NHS transgender policy
Courier - John Swinney quizzed on Sandie Peggie case as he defends trans changing room guidance
Scotsman - FMQs RECAP: John Swinney questioned on Sandie Peggie trans changing room row
Nursing Times - NHS Fife changing room tribunal: what we know so far
Herald - Why won't John Swinney address Sandie Peggie drama?
Scottish daily express - SNP rules allow men who self-identify as women access to female-only toilets and changing rooms despite it being illegal
[AUDIO] LBC - Shelagh Fogarty and Gina Davidson discuss Sandie Peggie's employment tribunal
[VIDEO] Holyrood PMQs - Rachel Hailton and Ash Regan
[VIDEO] Holyrood PMQs - John Swinney
Eastern Daily Press - Swinney urged to ditch SNP’s ‘gender ideology’ as Tories warn it is causing harm
Telegraph - Doctors who change gender are allowed to scrub past wrongdoing from public record
Herald - Kate Forbes backs single-sex spaces in Sandie Peggie row
Holyrood - Peggie v NHS Fife: More casualties to come
Times - Trans NHS staff must be allowed to use ‘preferred facilities’
19th Feb 2025
Scottish Daily Express - What's the point of Holyrood? Fury as 'cowardly' SNP block attempts to quiz Scottish Government on Sandie Peggie case
Telegraph - Men who self-ID as women can use female-only lavatories under SNP rules
Inverness Courier - Ministers urged to seek legal advice on draft NHS transgender policy
Spectator - Women won’t easily forget Scottish Labour’s gender turnaround
Telegraph - SNP health secretary refuses to back nurse facing sack for ‘misgendering’ trans doctor
STV - I do not regret supporting gender reforms, says Swinney
Herald - Gray has full confidence in NHS Fife amid Sandie Peggie row
18th Feb 2025
Spectator - Scottish Labour U-turns on trans stance
Daily Mail - Is Neil Gray a man of substance? If he stays quiet over single-sex changing rooms voters will form their own view
Courier - SNP block NHS Fife tribunal being discussed in Holyrood over ‘danger’ it could jeopardise case [Letter referred to from women's organisations here]
Holyrood Sources - Scottish Labour leader and deputy support Sandie Peggie and regret supporting GRR Bill
Scottish daily express - What's the point in Holyrood? Fury as 'cowardly' SNP block attempts to quiz Scottish Government on Sandie Peggie case
Holyrood: Tess White MSP on issues surrounding Sandie Paggie case
Holyrood: Murdo Fraser MSP calls Scot Gov censorship on single sex provision 'cowardice'
Holyrood: Douglas Ross Conservative MSP accuses Scottish Gov of blocking questions surrounding Sandie Peggie
Scottish Daily Express - Sandie Peggie case WON'T be discussed at Holyrood as attempts to get answers snubbed by secretive Scottish Parliament
Scottish Sun - NHS trans row was an avoidable mess – axing nurse will be shameful
Scottish Sun - NHS trans row was an avoidable mess – axing nurse will be shameful
17th February 2025
[AUDIO] BBC Radio Scotland - ‘Misconduct’ hearing rescheduled
Spiked - The NHS’s cruel witch-hunt of a gender-critical nurse
Scottish Daily Express - John Swinney under pressure to break silence on Sandie Peggie case as he is accused of 'hiding' behind loophole
(Related) Scottish Daily Express - Scots councillor faces disciplinary hearing for calling non-binary child abuse boy
The Times - Trans row nurse Sandie Peggie faces separate disciplinary hearing
Daily Mail - Trans doctor changing room controversy 'exposes the recklessness of Nicola Sturgeon's self-ID policies'
The Telegraph - Why would any woman work for the NHS after this nurse’s experience?
STV - SNP ministers told to ‘clear up mess’ on single sex spaces by UK Government
[VIDEO] BBC Reporting Scotland - Nurse Peggie faces misconduct hearing
The Telegraph - NHS allowed transgender doctor to use female facilities on advice of equalities officer
The Scotsman - New single-sex space guidance needed to clear up 'sheer mess' left by SNP ministers, after Beth Upton case
The Courier - Nurse suing NHS Fife over trans changing room row faces sack this week
Scottish Sun - Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar backs NHS nurse over women-only spaces amid Fife trans doctor row
Personnel Today - Nurse at centre of trans tribunal faces conduct hearing
The Scotsman - Employers have handled trans disputes ‘really badly’, says union boss, as Dr Beth Upton case row continues
Scottish Daily Express - Sandie Peggie faces sack by NHS Fife for 'misgendering' trans Dr Beth Upton